Charles Coleman Finlay's first story 'Footnotes' consisted entirely of footnotes describing a future disaster. The novella 'The Political Officer' is a deep space adventure about loyalty and betrayal.

A young Percival visits Faery years before he meets the Fisher King. A future earth is populated by only two kinds of people, homosexuals and hydrosexuals. The hostess of an island bed and breakfast shines with a deadly inner light. Two people on an asteroid colony risk everything to bring their families back from the brink of starvation. A zombie art teacher undertakes a quest for a really hot girl and a nice set of wheels. Three spies enter the abandoned city of Khorpis Kharn to kill a transfigured sorcerer. The slave Gabriel Prosser seeks his freedom in an America where Washington died in office and his successors drove Jefferson into exile.

These fourteen stories traverse the entire landscape of imagination—from alternate history to Arthurian romance, from sword and sorcery to space opera, from horror to the home next door.